I think that my student magazine overall is successful. I think that the colours are used constantly throughout and complement each other allowing the magazine to have a professional touch to it. I also think that the pugs and small story lines are interesting so that the reader reads on after viewing the front cover but also brief enough so that not too much information about the magazine is given away.

 

I also think that my main cover image is strong because its very visible and because it’s a medium shot it allows all focus to be on the person within the image instead of what is going on in the background and this is what i wanted considering the magazine was interviewing a new artist who does not yet have any fans and needs to grip people’s attention from the minute they first see the magazine.

  

By me using my own images but posing them as someone famous shows that i have really thought about the images i have used. It also shows that i have thought about the type of artists who would feature in the magazine and that they are not just randomly picked from the internet or copied of somewhere.

 

 

To improve my magazine i would make the main headline and the pull quote from the main article of the magazine bigger and bolder so that it’s clearly stands out from everything else on the page and the readers are not distracted away from it. I would also use brighter colours so that it makes it easier to read.

 

 

Another improvement i would make is that i would use a happier main image so that readers are drawn in by the friendliness of the person within. Even though the image is clear and professional it’s too serious for my chosen genre, and could make people not choose the magazine because the image is too cold.